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Delete Billing Profile/Billing Scope
Yes, this is yet another one of Microsoft's completely mind boggling decisions/issues (I'm unsure which one it is) but either way, if it's intentional, it's completely moronic, and if it's a limitation of how they designed the system, it's shortsighted and poor coding design. Either way, it needs to be fixed.
You're right, Azure doesn't let you delete billing accounts. Even though some guides mention a "Delete" button, it doesn't exist.
Here’s a simple workaround:
Remove Subscriptions: Cancel or transfer all subscriptions linked to the billing account. This makes it inactive.
Disable the Account: You can ask Azure Support to help disable the account so no more charges happen.
Remove Payment Methods: Remove any payment methods to prevent future charges.
You can’t fully delete the account, but doing these steps will stop it from being used.
With the help of MS support I went through the process of trying to orphan the accounts to try and remove them from the interface. They said that this usually helps since you can't delete the accounts. We are waiting to see if the changes take effect as it apparently takes some time.
They agreed that it is ridiculous that there is no way to properly delete billing accounts. In the hopes that someone else at MS would see how ridiculous this is and maybe fix this, I posted my concerns here.
Yes, this is yet another one of Microsoft's completely mind boggling decisions/issues (I'm unsure which one it is) but either way, if it's intentional, it's completely moronic, and if it's a limitation of how they designed the system, it's shortsighted and poor coding design. Either way, it needs to be fixed.